When Using the Send Command to Paste from the Clipboard, a Simple Best Practice Can Make the Difference
I’ve noticed that occasionally a couple of my Clipboard paste Hotkeys would cause a jump to the Bottom of the page in the WordPress editing window—a huge source of aggravation. Fortunately, I rarely used those Hotkeys. Then, while working on my blog for next week, I ran into the problem again in a simple capitalization Hotkey routine. This confused me since my standard uppercase, lowercase, and initial cap Hotkeys work just fine. The new Hotkey wasn’t that much different. I investigated.
It turns out that in the older working Hotkeys I sent the Clipboard variable to insert the text into the document:
Send %Clipboard%
while I used the Windows key combination Ctrl+V to paste the text in the newly created Hotkey:
Send ^v
If I used the first paste format with the variable Clipboard, it worked without a problem in WordPress. But, if I used the second Windows shortcut paste (Ctrl+V), it caused that maddening jump to the bottom in WordPress.
[Comment from Denis Lamarre: I suggest using “SendInput %Clipboard%” instead of “Send %Clipboard%”. It is generally faster and more reliable. In addition “SendInput” buffers any physical keyboard or mouse activity during the send, which prevents user keystrokes from being interspersed with those being sent.]
Note: Both forms worked fine in the other non-WordPress editors I tested.
I changed Send ^v to Send %Clipboard% in the new script and resolved the problem.
I now consider using Send %Clipboard% in place of Send ^v a best practice in AutoHotkey scripting.
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Nice column and tips Jack. I’ve noticed that sending Hotstrings in Word is very slow at times so I will try Sending %Clipboard%.
Best Regards.
*~Dale*
*Dale Winchell*
On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 1:33 PM Jack’s AutoHotkey Blog wrote:
> Jack Dunning posted: “When Using the Send Command to Paste from the > Clipboard, a Simple Best Practice Can Make the Difference I’ve noticed that > occasionally a couple of my Clipboard paste Hotkeys would cause a jump to > the bottom of the page in the WordPress editing window—a hu” >
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had the same problem, sending it with {RAW} fixed it:
SendInput {RAW}%Clipboard%
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I suggest using “SendInput %Clipboard%” instead of “Send %Clipboard%”. It is generally faster and more reliable. In addition “SendInput” buffers any physical keyboard or mouse activity during the send, which prevents user keystrokes from being interspersed with those being sent.
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I agree! In fact, my code does use SendInput. Thanks for the reminder.
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I would update the original post to reflect this important point (use SendInput instead of Send) [people are most likely not reading all the comments]
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I prefer in some case real pasting instead of sendinput %clipboard% because send will type the keys one by one and pasting in one step is much faster.
The difference you notice here with Ctrl+V is because it pastes the clipboard in rich text format where send %clipboard% will always paste in plain text.
I recommend using the WinClip library [https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/74670-class-winclip-direct-clipboard-manipulations/] (although there are some issues with it.) see https://tdalon.blogspot.com/2020/02/autohotkey-clipboard-handling.html
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What if you have “SendMode Input” at the very top of the script and use “Send Ctrl+v” would you still run into the same issue?
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I tested again, but the “SendMode Input” command does not resolve the issue.
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Have you seen my comment above a bit before this one that explains your issue?
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Yes, I was merely pointing out that the “SendMode Input” command does not make a difference. As far as sending text only, I understand the difference between ^v and %clipboard%. I have written about the various Clipboard scripts in the past but the vast majority of the clipboard routines I use only send text.
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[…] discussion of the SendInput %Clipboard% command versus the SendInput ^v command in the blog “Quick Tip: The Best Way to Paste with the AutoHotkey Send Command—including the comments from readers at the end of the […]
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In Excel
But it jump to another cell after completing command
is there any trick to keep it on the same cell
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